Manis ("spirit") is a genus of South Asian and East Asian pangolins, the Asiatic pangolins, from subfamily Maninae, within family Manidae.[5][6]
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Living pangolins from genus Manis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Pholidota |
Family: | Manidae |
Subfamily: | Maninae Gray, 1821 |
Genus: | Manis Linnaeus, 1758 |
Type species | |
Manis pentadactyla Linnaeus, 1758
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Species | |
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Carl Linnaeus (1758) invented the Neo-Latin generic name Manis apparently as a feminine singular form of the Latin masculine plural Manes, the Ancient Roman name for a type of spirit, after the animal's strange appearance.[7]
Phylogenetic position of genus Manis within family Manidae.[10][11][1]
Pholidotamorpha |
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(Pholidota sensu lato)
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